For me, it was having 6 dark sealed chests at the bottom of a donut island and being able to climb up almost to get out but fall back down.
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some random 1 million fame bottomfeeder bounty hunter following me into an abyssal diving spot during easter event to collect my 200k bounty while i was trying to get the abyssal egg
or the random 1 million bounty bottomfeeder assassin somehow finding me on the top left most part of the pelion rift after walking the entire way around from whitesummit to kill me (he was probably exploiting since i checked my poster and it only said “sailing in the bronze sea” and my brig was behind the rift so he couldnt of saw it)
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I have a sneaking suspicion that the a great deal of the responses will be about getting ganked.
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getting ganked isn’t even that bad just leave the server
still very annoying though, you lose galleons, renown, time, any charts you have on you, are forced to restart whatever you were previously doing before getting ganked, and in most cases you have to straight up swap servers entirely because theyll repeatedly kill you
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Getting hit by a pirate ketch’s cannonball, not noticing, going to bronze sea, losing 250+ sealed chests cus of combat log.
Losing a bunch of dark sealed chests because my internet apparently went out for like .00001 seconds.
without a doubt easily getting to the final wave of fort castrum only for an enemy to be in a wall somewhere i can’t see or hit them.
other people
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I rejoined ao for the first time in months to check out why I hated the game again
11 assasinations/hunts across all 3 files later within the span of 30 minutes and I now remember why
I basically got every dark sealed chest I wanted from my run and was about to sail back to the bronze sea when an atlantean ship appeared. Now usually this is easy for me, just sail away but I decided to ram it to get some speed and then what happened was the most catastrophic bug I have seen in AO. I was on the captains seat but I got flung so far that my literal limbs disappeared and it was just my clothing items, it was so bad that when I tried to reset I couldn’t die. I had to literally leave the server and lost like 30 dark sealed’s after like 2 hours of grinding.
blud said 30 
Back in 2023 I got jumped as a low level so many times that it ended up taking several more hours to reach max level… and they always did it while I was doing cargo
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Probably every single instance of combat in the game (as well as in WoM and any AA-based game that doesn’t rework its combat in a way that’s good)
It feels so clunky, shallow, floaty and unfun, and it doesn’t help that it’s something you’re gonna be doing often, whether it’s to progress the story or do some optional thing, or to defend yourself against the occasional ganker (which I surprisingly don’t run into often despite my stance on the implementation of PvP).
NPCs being influenced by RNG while basically requiring no strategy to fight them only exacerbates the problems with combat.
They should make PvP combat more slower and small scale. For example, they should make double the cooldown for every move so people aren’t just spamming, and make reflexes and dashes 40% shorter. They should also make every skill 30% slower and smaller. This would make combat feel more skilled and strategic unlike now where all you have to do is spam attacks until they hit.
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they are increasing cooldowns in full release but I doubt the main core of gameplay will be changed, I’m not keen on too much aspects of this game being like elden ring
Im not saying for it to be like elden ring, I just think that they should change today’s PvP from braindead dash, spam, leap, dash, spam, hyper atk size and speed builds, to a slightly more skilled version where even if you have a level or gear disadvantage, you could still win by locking in and parring and dodging every attack while hitting all of your own attacks.
That was like an hour or so of grinding for me and it was mainly how terrible the bug was that got me. Although I prob had some more annoying moments. (As of writing I can imagine it)
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And when ive already used my mini sized blast beam and explosions what the fuck will i be doing? With this system a lock on feature is absoluetly essential and then everything becomes soulshatters
Buff m1s please